Nancy’s Reviews > Space Age Renaissance Man: How a Brilliant NASA Visionary Overcame Great Obstacles to Invent a Critical System for the Apollo Moon Missions... Then Kept Reinventing Himself > Status Update

1985
Just about ready to sell their Padgett-Thompson company.

Lost this book for a couple of months .. finishing it this weekend.
His space then education careers are completed. Next up ?

Apollo 8 success.
first time lunar experiences

“Can you imagine the nerve it took the astronauts to climb aboard so large a multi-layered bomb and strap themselves in for … launch ? .. those space cowboys knew that every one of the millions of parts used 2 actually construct their vehicles was built by the government’s lowest bidder !”

Excellent facts about the sphere layers between earth and space .. SO interesting !

“A decade later, Shepard further cemented his fame by walking on the moon as part of the crew of Apollo 14.”

May 5, 1961
Alan Shepard, 1st American astronaut
launched N2 suborbital space.
Rocket: Freedom 7 “pierced the border of the sky” involved “burning back through the atmosphere”
This flight lasted ~15 min. from launch to splashdown.

Also received AF Special Act Award and presented paper orally in San Francisco @ AF Science and Engineering Symposium.
“All those eyes!”

AF paid for his MS program @ Ohio State.
Master of Science “there was a super heavy load of really challenging math, especially advanced calculus, ..”
Thesis: Analytical Study of Satellite Temperature Variations
Described the high-speed computer program I had designed to predict the temperature fluxes of satellites in orbit.

Fascinating.